Legendary R&B songwriter, producer and artist Valerie Simpson as well as recent ASCAP Shirley Walker Award-winning composer Deborah Lurie have been added to the ASCAP EXPO lineup along with nearly 20 other new ASCAP EXPO panelists.

Why should you attend the ASCAP EXPO? You just might get your big break. Jameil Aossey got signed by super-producer S1 after they met at the EXPO - or as Jameil calls it, the "15 minutes that changed my life." Read their story.

Over 50 new panelists have been added to the 10th annual ASCAP EXPO lineup, including Toby Gad ("All of Me"), Shawn Patterson ("Everything is Awesome") and Santigold. Be in Los Angeles from April 30th to May 2nd to boost your music career.

Graci Phillips and Katie Stump hit it off at the 2012 ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO, and they've kept up a cross-country songwriting partnership ever since. Want to find a new collaborator of your own? Register for the 2015 EXPO today!

In 2013, Jonny Amos, Pauly Greenwood and Meldra Guza wrote a song together from across the Atlantic. At the 2014 ASCAP EXPO, Darrell Brown invited them onstage to perfect it. Read this incredible "only at the EXPO" story.

The ASCAP EXPO iStandard Producer and Rapper Showcase is for rappers and producers in Hip-Hop, Pop, R&B and Dance. Submissions are open to get in the spotlight in front of a panel of prominent music industry tastemakers.

High school music teacher Anne Fennell brought her class to the ASCAP EXPO in April. We asked Fennell what it was like for her students to connect their classroom learning with the real-world opportunities available at the EXPO.